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Poojarathore94

thanx its useful 4 me………

anno4753

i never install any of that tool bar crap anywayz (9 times out of 10 its going to be nasty)

Tom

Doesn’t work anymore. With the newest versions, the adware/spyware/plain virus gets installed whether or not you tick out the boxes. Frankly, at this stage I wouldn’t even trust the paid version to be clean.

Yupp

Yeah. I used Daemon Tools for quite some time without any issue. But the other day it told me an update was available and I followed through with it. I unchecked the usual Toolbar/Homepage crap, but found some dirty .exe installed under the guise of HKCMD.EXE (an intel tool that has access to various things). I am 100% sure it came from the installer. It was created about 45 seconds after running the Daemon update.

I removed Daemon tools and the unwanted .exe and decided to go with Virtual CloneDrive (which works quite seamlessly and AdFree with Windows 7)

Markus

I describe myself as an experienced PC user.

But with version 4.48.1 of Deamon Tools Lite, it ALWAYS installs Adware in the temp folder of my Windows.